selles
\sɛl\
The verdict
“selles” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,466. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,466
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Excréments humains, formés des résidus de la digestion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-selles · selles · French
selles · rank #21,466 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,466
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scrupule
Nearest frequency peer: scrupule (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « selles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- sant
sant
78,538 corpus weight
- Saumur
Saumur
78,537 corpus weight
- scrupule
scrupule
78,536 corpus weight
- selles
selles
78,535 corpus weight
- sexistes
sexistes
78,534 corpus weight
- shield
shield
78,533 corpus weight
What this shows « selles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | selles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « selles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around selles (IPA \sɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,466 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Excréments humains, formés des résidus de la digestion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for selles, with forms such as "eslles", "selels", and "seles". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sels", "seule", "seuls", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is selles, spelled S-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Excréments humains, formés des résidus de la digestion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how selles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parfois elles étaient si dures les nouvelles selles merveilleuses, qu’elle en éprouvait un mal affreux au fondement… Des déchirements… Elle était obligée de se mettre de la vaseline alors avant d’aller aux cabinets.
En somme, il n'avait rien perdu de son capital, pas même les mots dont il possédait peu et qu'il n'avait jamais lâchés qu'avec effort, mais d'un coup, à l'image de ses selles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eslles
- selels
- seles
- selless
- sellse
- sleles
- sselles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of selles - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).